My reflection 11/3/25:
“When the Lord puts something on your heart to do, you do it. It may not make sense to others. It may not even make sense to you at the moment. But the logic of the world has no bearing on what God has said to you. Others will not be accountable for your lack of obedience. You will. You can pause and ask if you heard or understood the Lord correctly. God will make it clear. If it is within what you understand of the character of God, the Word of God, the example of Christ and it is within your ability, don’t delay.
At that point, you need to get on about His business. It may never make sense and you may never see the result. None of that matters….. only that you obeyed the Lord…. for God’s glory, others’ gain, and your good.”
Yesterday as I drove to New Orleans to pick up a disabled 52 year old woman who doesn’t drive (and her little dog,) to deliver her to her mother’s home in Florida, I was listening to praise music and talking to the Lord, I heard in my spirit, “I’m your huckleberry.” It was an odd phrase to pop out of nowhere. I knew it was a line from a western movie but didn’t understand it. When I had a chance I looked it up…..
From Richard Barker’s “The History of English” site…
“If someone tells you that they’re your huckleberry, they’re basically saying that they are the one you are looking for or talking about.
The phrase could be used to say that you’re the person who is right for a job or a specific task. Or on the other hand, it can also be used as a sinister threat, and be used to incite someone into an argument or fight.
The phrase ‘I’m your huckleberry’ has two different origins. One origin story says that the original phrase was ‘I’m your hucklebearer’. In this context, the person is basically saying that they will be your coffin bearer. The reason for this is that the handles on coffins are called huckles, and someone who carries a coffin were thus referred to as a hucklebearer.
So, if you’ve upset or angered someone, this phrase could be used in such a threatening context. It signifies that someone is putting themselves forward as the person to take their anger out on.
However, the other origin story of the phrase is remarkably different, and is associated with legends of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. It is said that huckleberry garlands, or in other words a ring of flowers, were gifted to knights as a token of thanks for helping out a damsel in distress. The damsel would slide the garland to the knight on his housing sword. Thus through this origin story, the phrase ‘I’m your huckleberry’ means ‘I’m your hero.
Much time later in the 1800s, the phrase came into use once more with a different meaning again. This time, it was used sarcastically to describe someone as minor or unimportant.
The phrase grew in popularity with linguists following its use in the film Tombstone, which was a western action film starring Val Kilmer.”
As with dreams that I know are from God, when a phrase or image comes in the midst of praise or prayer, the meaning may not be immediately obvious. But if I reflect on it and wait, God will show me the meaning. As I think this morning about “I’m your huckleberry, it seemed like a word God was inviting me to say to him, as in “I’m your servant. Task me however you wish.” More snd more, in this current time of transition in my ministry, that seems to be the posture out of which I am operating…. Watching daily to see how God directs me and doing that.
This morning, too, I’m thinking about God’s hand alone being the one that buried Moses in a hidden place . Perhaps it was to prevent his body and burial place from being vandalized or moved, perhaps preventing it from being taken into the Promised Land and becoming an idolatrous relic. Joseph’s bones had been taken from Egypt to be buried with family elsewhere. The Bible tells of others’ bones taken “home” with family to be buried. In that case, God actually would have been Moses’ “hucklebearer!”
I have no sense that God is angry with me, threatening harm, or of any foreboding sense of death that would suggest the My reflection 11/3/25:
“When the Lord puts something on your heart to do, you do it. It may not make sense to others. It may not even make sense to you at the moment. But the logic of the world has no bearing on what God has said to you. Others will not be accountable for your lack of obedience. You will. You can pause and ask if you heard or understood the Lord correctly. God will make it clear. If it is within what you understand of the character of God, the Word of God, the example of Christ and it is within your ability, don’t delay.
At that point, you need to get on about His business. It may never make sense and you may never see the result. None of that matters….. only that you obeyed the Lord…. for God’s glory, others’ gain, and your good.”
Yesterday as I drove to New Orleans to pick up a disabled 52 year old woman who doesn’t drive (and her little dog,) to deliver her to her mother’s home in Florida, I was listening to praise music and talking to the Lord, I heard in my spirit, “I’m your huckleberry.” It was an odd phrase to pop out of nowhere. I knew it was a line from a western movie but didn’t understand it. When I had a chance I looked it up…..
“If someone tells you that they’re your huckleberry, they’re basically saying that they are the one you are looking for or talking about.
The phrase could be used to say that you’re the person who is right for a job or a specific task. Or on the other hand, it can also be used as a sinister threat, and be used to incite someone into an argument or fight.
The phrase ‘I’m your huckleberry’ has two different origins. One origin story says that the original phrase was ‘I’m your hucklebearer’. In this context, the person is basically saying that they will be your coffin bearer. The reason for this is that the handles on coffins are called huckles, and someone who carries a coffin were thus referred to as a hucklebearer.
So, if you’ve upset or angered someone, this phrase could be used in such a threatening context. It signifies that someone is putting themselves forward as the person to take their anger out on.
However, the other origin story of the phrase is remarkably different, and is associated with legends of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. It is said that huckleberry garlands, or in other words a ring of flowers, were gifted to knights as a token of thanks for helping out a damsel in distress. The damsel would slide the garland to the knight on his housing sword. Thus through this origin story, the phrase ‘I’m your huckleberry’ means ‘I’m your hero.
Much time later in the 1800s, the phrase came into use once more with a different meaning again. This time, it was used sarcastically to describe someone as minor or unimportant.
The phrase grew in popularity with linguists following its use in the film Tombstone, which was a western action film starring Val Kilmer.”
I don’t have any sense of God’s anger or a foreboding of death that gives any weight to the negative, sinister meanings at all.
it’s more a matter, it seems, of the Lord reminding me He is all that I need to have for each day’s need and direction. Or that He is nodding in understanding agreement that He knows I am fully committed to do whatever He directs me to do, knowing that I will test it against the standards of truth He has established for me…
I believe God knows that the desire of my heart is to trust and obey. I believe He also is letting me know that He trusts me to obey. CBB 11/3/25
